It was only a matter of time before I started blogging. It was always on my mind from the time I started reading Adarsh's blog. The main factor that impeded me from starting blogging was this: what would I write about? I've made a decision. I'd write everything that came to my mind.

I also have a need to start blogging. Thoughts and ideas need outlets. They should not stay for too long inside the brain. If they do, they end up rotting the brain. Atleast in my case they do. One train of thought overlaps another, effectively crippling the whole process.

I cannot remember each and every thought that takes place inside my head. In ancient times, all knowledge was passed down to lower generations by an oral tradition. A time came when the human brain became insufficient for the amount of knowledge that was present. Humans were becoming increasingly curious about their surroundings and themselves. There were more questions to be asked. Our awareness correspondingly increased as more answers began to come. There were more ideas and thoughts.

At one point, there were just too many. This was probably the time when someone invented writing. As far as I know, in Egyptian mythology, it was Thoth the Thrice Great, their god of wisdom, magic and a few more, who invented writing. Other civilizations do not mention any particular name who had invented writing though they do have their gods of writing like Lord Ganesha in Hinduism.

The earliest known form of writing is the Cuneiform script, used by the Sumerians. It was created in the 4th millenium B. C. The Hieroglyphs of the Egyptians and the Chinese script come a close second at 3rd millenium B. C. The Vedas were written down in the 2nd millenium B. C. The Mayans and their predecessors, the Olmecs, starting writing roughly around 1000 B. C.

Over the millenia, writing became increasingly complex as new languages arose out of the older ones. Every language had it's own script though they all took birth from the same source. Take all the Indian languages. They all originated from Sanskrit. Some languages derived qualities from more than one language. Urdu, for example, has an Arabic like script but most of the words are derived from Hindi.

As we enter the 3rd millenium A. D., a completely new set of languages is becoming prominent. A peculiar nature of this set of languages is that it was invented by humans but yet it is not used for communication from human to human. They are used by humans to communicate to a new kind of entities called computers. This language is having a great effect on the socio-economic scene of this period. It has given rise to an entirely new set of tools for man. These tools or software as it is known is the primary reason for the great effect, a revolution in its right.

Thanks to this great development of language that has enabled me today to use a tool to give vent to my thoughts like I did here. Writing in books was the method before. I have thought of writing to give vent to my thoughts. But books degrade with time. They get torn, physically damaged, become homes to fungi and moths just like an old building loses it's physical strength and becomes a haven for antisocial elements and robbers.

And lo, and behold! I have completed my first weblog!